I use XLD on my Macs for critical CD extraction. Suggest that to them!!
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Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
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On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:07 AM, John Spencer wrote:
> Collective wisdom of the ARSC list,
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> I got a message from an archivist friend, and while we haven't tried anything ourselves, I thought I would post his message to the list to see if anyone had any ideas for recovery.
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> Any help is greatly appreciated and I will forward it to him.
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> Thanks in advance,
> John Spencer
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> I’m beginning to have some problems with many of the CD-R’s that are in the collection I work with. Most of theseCD-R’s were made from analog sources [we thankfully still have them] over 10 years ago, long before we had any sort of digital storage system. These CD-R’s suffer from a variety of jitter/glitches when exported into the computer and many of them skip or hang up when played in a CD player. They were all created using a stand-alone Sony CDR-W33 burner and the CD-R stock was JVC/Taiyo Yuden.
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> My current platform is Mac. I’ve tried a couple of different CD drives, thinking that may make a difference, but no dice. I’ve tried copying some of them through iTunes using its built-in error correction. I’ve downloaded MAX-a CD ripper application for Mac that uses a version of cdparanoia—I’ve also tried Pillage, so far nothing has made any noticeable difference.
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> If you have any thoughts on ways to productively do this, or know of anyone who has successfully dealt with a problem like this, please let me know.
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